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Revival 2024

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Ramparts has been silent for some time. Personal priorities and external events stole the self imposed discipline needed to drive creative essays developed in solitary, to be read by only a hardy few. Excuses aside, sometimes it takes just a little jolt to get the fires burning again. An old loyal reader in casual conversation […]... Read More
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22 December 1808

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Public events sometimes exceed the real time shared experience to take on in retrospect a certain transcendent quality. As the event subsequently becomes elevated to an iconic cultural status, the number of people who actually were “there” and their memories of it, are exceeded by the ever larger group of people who over time tie the […]... Read More
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Hell Comes For Ukraine

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The cliff like 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War helped propagate a mythic conclusion in the West that the battle between competing versions of humanity and destiny had been won in favor of “liberal democracy”.  The illustrative argument was put forth by Francis Fukuyama in his treatise The End […]... Read More
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Lincoln Holds Up At 213

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We are in a time of deconstructive destruction.  Marxian critical theory, the specific economic radical thought that bluntly separates the world into oppressors and the oppressed, and formulates the process of unmasking and liberation from the ideology that justifies keeping the later oppressed, has morphed, for a myriad of today’s political agendas, into a tidy weapon […]... Read More
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People We Should Know – #36 – Éric Zemmour

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A story that resonates with American voters is a developing saga on the French political landscape.  In 2015, a business celebrity figure with no political lineage or identifiable establishment support headed down an escalator in New York City directly into the maelstrom of American establishment politics, showing little tact and much disdain for the establishment, […]... Read More
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9/11 Twenty Years Later – The Reckoning

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The harrowing image even twenty years later sears with heat from distant memory. On a beautiful, crystal clear morning, September 11, 2001 , a vicious gash of reality was lanced across America’s psyche by determined Islamic terrorists orchestrated by an international collective looking to decapitate America’s confidence and vitality in a ruthless and brilliant multi-pronged […]... Read More
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The Last Afghanistand

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  An ignominious defeat  awaits America in Afghanistan,  with harrowing echoes to the calamitous last days of the United States’ previous 20 year effort to militarily sustain an unsustainable government –  in South Vietnam.  President Biden, true to his democrat roots of never letting a crisis go to waste, has leveled his careful and experienced […]... Read More